Caged In
Caged In: Breaking Through the Walls of Oppression Held back, caged, strangled, deprived, and hurt. These words begin to describe the feelings that are stressed in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Women have made incredible progress since 1892 when Gilman’s short story was written. Charlotte Perkins Gilman knew that women were desperate for gender equality. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator tries desperately to free an imaginary, imprisoned woman from that “repellant, almost revolting” wallpaper (Gilman 227). In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman uses personification to give the wallpaper a life of it’s own and to be an overbearing symbol of female oppression. Furthermore, to understand Gilman’s goals, we must first try to understand her as a person. This story is not just something Gilman conjured up with a creative mind. This story is a semi-autobiographical account of what she went through as a bed-ridden wife and mother suffering from depression. At one point in the story Gilman referred to her own neurologist: “John says if I don’t pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall”(Gilman 229
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Approximate Word count = 761
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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